MOS: 2531 Field Radio Operator
While in Vietnam Curtis was with the Mortar Battery, 1st Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division.
Curtis died as a result gunshot wounds to the body when hostile forces attacked the Marines on Hill 861.
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The Salt Lake Tribune -23 Jan 1968
Marine Pfc. Curtis Burke Bugger, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bugger, 4098 W. 5500 South, Kearns, died Sunday of gunshot wounds received in a battle near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, the Defense Department announced.
Pfc. Bugger Joined the Marines in March 1967, and received his basic training in San Diego, Calif. A member of the Third Marine Division, he had been in Vietnam since Oct 12,1967.
Pfc. Bugger was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had been a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. He had attended Cyprus High School.
Pfc. Bugger was born Oct. 12, 1948, in Coalville, a son of Charles Burke and Wilma Saxton Bagger. Surviving are his parents, four brothers and two sisters, Dennis, Kerry Jo, Danny, John and Robyn, all Kearns, and Mrs. Kaney (Vicki) Loader, Salt Lake City, and two grandmothers, Mrs. Annie Bugger, Ogden and Mrs. Florence Saxton, Salt Lake City.
MOS: 2531 Field Radio Operator
While in Vietnam Curtis was with the Mortar Battery, 1st Battalion, 13th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division.
Curtis died as a result gunshot wounds to the body when hostile forces attacked the Marines on Hill 861.
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The Salt Lake Tribune -23 Jan 1968
Marine Pfc. Curtis Burke Bugger, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bugger, 4098 W. 5500 South, Kearns, died Sunday of gunshot wounds received in a battle near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, the Defense Department announced.
Pfc. Bugger Joined the Marines in March 1967, and received his basic training in San Diego, Calif. A member of the Third Marine Division, he had been in Vietnam since Oct 12,1967.
Pfc. Bugger was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and had been a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. He had attended Cyprus High School.
Pfc. Bugger was born Oct. 12, 1948, in Coalville, a son of Charles Burke and Wilma Saxton Bagger. Surviving are his parents, four brothers and two sisters, Dennis, Kerry Jo, Danny, John and Robyn, all Kearns, and Mrs. Kaney (Vicki) Loader, Salt Lake City, and two grandmothers, Mrs. Annie Bugger, Ogden and Mrs. Florence Saxton, Salt Lake City.
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